PCN-107 MIDTERM EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS
\Q\.Freud's topographic model (#1) - ANSWER-✔Conscious: thoughts you are currently aware of
\Q\.Freud's topographic model (#2) - ANSWER-✔Preconscious: stored information you can
retrieve if desired
, \Q\.Freud's topographic model (#3) - ANSWER-✔Unconscious: thoughts, feelings, and desires
you cannot access under most circumstances, although they may be accessed through specific
techniques. (compared to an "iceberg").
\Q\.Explain the purpose of defense mechanisms - ANSWER-✔Defense mechanisms are the
unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing its source from
themselves and others. Ego attempts to reduce or avoid anxiety by keeping material out of the
conscious (ex: repression, sublimation, displacement, etc.)
\Q\.Name the five stages of psychosexual development - ANSWER-✔1. Oral stage (0-18 months)
2. Anal stage (18 months-3yrs)
3. Phallic stage (3-6yrs) *Oedipus complex
4. Latency (6+ yrs)
5. Genital (Beyond Puberty)
fixation= psychic energy
\Q\.Transference - ANSWER-✔unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another
(usually client to counselor). Key to psychodynamic therapy.
\Q\.counter transference - ANSWER-✔unconscious transferring of thoughts, feelings, and
attitudes onto the client by the therapist
QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS
\Q\.Freud's topographic model (#1) - ANSWER-✔Conscious: thoughts you are currently aware of
\Q\.Freud's topographic model (#2) - ANSWER-✔Preconscious: stored information you can
retrieve if desired
, \Q\.Freud's topographic model (#3) - ANSWER-✔Unconscious: thoughts, feelings, and desires
you cannot access under most circumstances, although they may be accessed through specific
techniques. (compared to an "iceberg").
\Q\.Explain the purpose of defense mechanisms - ANSWER-✔Defense mechanisms are the
unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing its source from
themselves and others. Ego attempts to reduce or avoid anxiety by keeping material out of the
conscious (ex: repression, sublimation, displacement, etc.)
\Q\.Name the five stages of psychosexual development - ANSWER-✔1. Oral stage (0-18 months)
2. Anal stage (18 months-3yrs)
3. Phallic stage (3-6yrs) *Oedipus complex
4. Latency (6+ yrs)
5. Genital (Beyond Puberty)
fixation= psychic energy
\Q\.Transference - ANSWER-✔unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another
(usually client to counselor). Key to psychodynamic therapy.
\Q\.counter transference - ANSWER-✔unconscious transferring of thoughts, feelings, and
attitudes onto the client by the therapist
